State · 1352 – 1576

Bengal Sultanate

A state of 1352 – 1576 — 224 years in South Asia. It was followed by Mughal Empire. The atlas records 4 things within it — people 4. Its line of rulers holds 12 people, 11 with dated terms.

Wikidata's English label: Sultanate of Bengal.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood: 224 years; 1352 – 1576
Rulers: 12; the Sultan of Bengal
Most ground: 362,000 km²; in 1502
Within it: 4; recorded rows
Symbol: 1; on record, with years

Map: Bengal Sultanate in 1502, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Bengal Sultanate in 1502, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 362,000 km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.

Before and after

The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.

After it

Mughal Empire · followed by · 1526 – 1857

Rulers

The line of Sultan of Bengal.

killed, executed or dead in battledied in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on record

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Shamsuddin Ilyas Shah	1342 – 1358	16 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Sikandar Shah	1358 – 1390	32 years	killed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article	child
Ghiyasuddin Azam Shah	1390 – 1411	21 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Saifuddin Hamza Shah	1411 – 1413	2 years	killed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article	child
Shihabuddin Bayazid Shah	1413 – 1414	1 year	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Alauddin Firuz Shah I	1414 – 1414	under a year	ending not on record	child
Alauddin Husain Shah	1494 – 1518	24 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Taj Khan Karrani	1564 – 1566	2 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Sulaiman Khan Karrani	1566 – 1572	6 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	sibling
Bayazid Khan Karrani	1572 – 1572	under a year	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Daud Khan Karrani	1572 – 1576	4 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	sibling

12 rulers, 11 with terms dated as terms, covering 1342 – 1576. Median reign 4 years. 2 of 10 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Ground held, by year

km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.

332,500 km² in 1352, 346,700 km² in 1532; at its largest 362,000 km² in 1502. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

Flag or arms

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

flag, undatedBengal sultanate flag reconstruction · Public domain

What happened within it, by century

Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.

1300 – 13992 rows

Shamsuddin Ilyas Shah · ruler · 1350 – 1358
Sikandar Shah · ruler · 1335 – 1390

1400 – 14991 row

Alauddin Husain Shah · ruler · 1450 – 1519

1500 – 15991 row

Taj Khan Karrani · ruler · 1505 – 1566

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

How long it stood224 years
stood longer than 66% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held362,000 km²
held more ground at its peak than 69% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
How long a reign lasted, at the median4 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 13% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record12
has more rulers on record than 84% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 0 causes the record names and 4 results, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.

linked

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 1330 – 1598, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1502, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q4083686 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.